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Netherland: A Novel | Joseph O'Neill

#fooandlit2025
Lovely selection of countries to discover news flavours and words this year!

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SilversReviews

The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland | Jim DeFede

An amazing read about how Newfoundland helped the USA on 911!!

Thanks, @ChaoticMissAdventures

“20 Day Cover Challenge - As we start a new year and think about what we want in a book.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.” 9/20

#20covers

Kristin_Reads Great pick; I remember this one so vividly. 2w

SilversReviews @Kristin_Reads I read this for my book club. None of us actually remembered. 2w

ChaoticMissAdventures I have never read the book, but I saw the play which was very moving. 2w

SilversReviews @ChaoticMissAdventures I am sure it was very moving. 6d

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

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I‘ve got my first book hangover of the year thanks to Idlewild. Once I started it I really never wanted to put it down. The passion and yearning of high school/ teen life, even when you aren‘t sure what the huge yearning feeling is for exactly, combined with such deeply considered characters.

While the ending felt right and very realistic, I did hope for something slightly different.

Best book of the year so far 😆. I did love this.
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AmyG Love the photo! 3w

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w

MartinaLove Too sweet 🐱 3w

Soubhiville This was my #bookspin for January. @TheAromaofBooks 2w

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

I‘m only 3/4 through, but I can feel this one is likely to make my best of list for the year. It‘s kind of exciting to say that this early in January!

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Bookwormjillk I liked that book a lot. It was really different yet somehow relatable. 3w

AmyG Isn‘t it wonderful when a book takes you by surprise? 3w

squirrelbrain It made my best of list when I read it! 3w

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Hooked_on_books It was a favorite for me, too! 😍 3w

Ruthiella This was a fantastic book. 👍 3w

Magpiegem Ooh this sounds fantastic! 3w

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elijah.reibin

Ground Zero | Alan Gratz

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Ground Zero, created by Alan Gratz follows two parallel stories that is framed around the 9/11 attack during and after the incident. In 2001, a young boy named Brandon is trapped within the World Trade Center, also known as the Twin Towers, after the terrorist attack happened and tries to survive. In 2019, an Afghan girl named Reshima faces consequences on the ongoing war in Afghanistan from the result of 9/11. Through both characters experiences,

elijah.reibin the book follows the theme terrorism, survival, war, and the risk of their own lives through global conflict. Both characters show how even in tough situations, the only way to survive is to face conflicts, and I highly recommended this book if you like how the main character struggles to overcome obstacles to keep themselves alive. In the photo, it has the recharge of the twin towers, but the symbol throughout the book is the dust on the (edited) 3w

elijah.reibin front of the page. Dust represents the aftermath of the destruction from the twin towers and the collapse of Afghanistan. The violence from Brandon‘s point of view represents the immediate chaos and the loss of purity, while Reshima‘s view on cruelty signifies the ongoing suffering and instability in her world after the 9/11 attack. Throughout the book, dust is the reminder of how the actions of one‘s enemies can affect the individual and society, 3w

elijah.reibin which lets us think of the outcome when violence can become a far-reaching problem. 3w

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

I‘m pleased with this month‘s #bookspin picks 🙂📚. Thanks @TheAromaofBooks !

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Enjoy!! I've been meaning to pick up Gleanings - it came out after I read the initial series. 4w

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keithmalek

The Submission | Amy Waldman

My 10 favorite books of 2024. Number 7

#2024Top10

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Soubhiville

Idlewild | James Frankie Thomas

This is a case of wanting to start all of these books right now, thank you Holly! I love that they are all from small publishers, and the oddities one doesn‘t even have any Litsy reviews yet so it‘ll be fun posting the first. I‘ll enjoy coloring the tea towels, what a cool project. And the bag did make me laugh, I used to love the little miss books from school book fairs. Pretty sure she was never featured 😆. Merry Christmas! 💚❤️💚

squirrelbrain Lovely gifts! And Idlewild is so good! ❤️ 1mo

tpixie Merry Christmas 🎄📘🎁 1mo

Hooked_on_books Merry Christmas and you‘re so welcome! Tony got a tea towel set for his mom from the big craft fair here a couple years ago and I regretted not getting one for you, so I was so glad to find that vendor again. And the Oddities book looks so fun—I hope you end up posting pics from it if there are fun illustrations. The other books I‘ve read and enjoyed all very much, so hopefully you do, too! 1mo

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katie_87

Towers Falling | Jewell Parker Rhodes

The skyline's changed. The two rectangular towers in the photo are gone, replaced by one glittering tower with a pointy top pricking the sky.

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